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Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n It is with great sadness that I learned of the passing of former UNRWA Commissioner-General Ilter T\u00fcrkmen, who served the Agency between 1991 and 1996 \u00a0in Istanbul yesterday. A seasoned diplomat, prior to working with UNRWA, Mr. \u00a0T\u00fcrkmen served as Turkey\u2019s \u00a0Permanent Representative to the United Nations both in New York and Geneva, and also as the Foreign Minister of Turkey between 1980-1983. Mr. T\u00fcrkmen joined UNRWA as Commissioner-General during a difficult period and was a strong supporter of the pioneering Refugee Affairs Officer programme that provided passive protection to Palestine refugees in the occupied Palestinian territory during the first intifada.\u00a0 He leaves behind a legacy that has had ripple effects on UNRWA and the Palestine refugee population it serves. The Agency offers its heartfelt condolences and sympathy to his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 It is with great sadness that I learned of the passing of former UNRWA Commissioner-General Ilter T\u00fcrkmen, who served the Agency between 1991 and 1996 \u00a0in Istanbul yesterday. A seasoned diplomat, prior to working with UNRWA, Mr. \u00a0T\u00fcrkmen served as Turkey\u2019s \u00a0Permanent Representative to the United Nations both in New York and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6544,6542],"class_list":["post-277401","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-arabic","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/277401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/277401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=277401"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=277401"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=277401"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=277401"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=277401"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=277401"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=277401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}